Friday, January 4, 2019
“The clue for 2 down in the New York Times‘ first crossword puzzle of the new year was nothing unusual: ‘Pitch to the head, informally.’ But the answer stopped many p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Andrea Clearfield added Nepali and Tibetan bells, conch shells, and singing bowls to the Western orchestra for Mila, Great Sorcerer, but even those were sounds she already knew. So she got a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The Cinexx theater in the town of Hachenburg made the offer to members of the right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland for a screening on Jan. 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Cinexx says…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]“New York’s Supreme Court has dismissed a case against [the magazine and its] former publisher, Knight Landesman, whom curator and art fair director Amanda Schmitt claimed had se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]“National Geographic Channel has pulled its long-running Neil deGrasse Tyson chat show StarTalk off the air, at least for now, following allegations of sexual misconduct against the fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]“Background music has to walk a tricky line. We want something inoffensive yet meaningful, and you’d better believe that we " the consumer masses " will barrage customer service …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Last month, Thelma Fardin posted a video to Instagram in which she tearfully recounted how Juan Darthés allegedly raped her while they were touring Nicaragua for a telenovela. She was 16; h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Book clubs with names such as “Read Women” have been growing in Brazilian cities, pushing for including more work by women authors in publishers’ lists, bookstores’ i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]The figures show a bounce-back for the museum after several years of dips in attendance attributed to falling tourism in Paris following the 2015-16 terrorist attacks. Juicing the numbers we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Howard Shalwitz, longtime artistic director of the DC company Woolly Mammoth, writes about his recent visit to the Hungarian capital, reporting that, despite constant political pressure on f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Once again, art-lings, let me offer you my Best Wishes for an Art-Full New Year, along with CultureGrrl's Top 20 Stories for 2018. And I'll end this post with a postlude about an issue that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM[SHARE]Let's mention just a few recent recordings by Canadians whose work has caught the ears of the Rifftides staff. " Doug Ramsay
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
Lit scholar Nina Lyon makes the case that it’s both: Carroll was, by profession, a mathematical logician, and he saw the corner into which the field of logic and metaphysics was backin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]“To produce a robot that can carry out complicated practical tasks is so costly that these devices remain the preserve of industry and defence. Instead developers are working with emot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Apollo editor Thomas Marks: “Restitution often feels like a disquieting concept for many Western museum-goers (myself included), for whom the values one invests in museums are unlikely…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Filmmaker Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, described by a correspondent as a “dreamy pseudo-noir,” grossed nearly $38 million on its first day, nearly unheard …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]There are 15 buildings designed by the Brazilian architect in the 1960s for what was meant to be a permanent international expo in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli. The civil war that start…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]“Instead of assigning the same old essays about Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, [Sarah Roman] wove classroom assignments into an epic adventure for her students to play their way thr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Himself a Holocaust survivor, “[Hilsenrath] chronicled the degradations of the ghettos in one novel and dared to turn genocide into satire in another, selling millions of copies and de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]“The [countertenor] filed the suit earlier this month against Andrew Lipian, who accused Daniels of groping him in 2017 in a federal lawsuit which also alleges that the University of M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]When preparing for construction of architect Jørn Utzon’s design, the Opera House’s original lead engineer could not get his structural calculations for the now-famous roof to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]The three-year agreement “includes 2-percent annual increases in minimum weekly compensation, a higher level of seniority pay for long-term members, and annual increases to retirement,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]“Steve Tompkins, the Stirling Prize-winning architect behind the recently completed redevelopments of Battersea Arts Centre and Bristol Old Vic, … has claimed the number one spot in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda’s juggernaut grossed more than $4 million last week alone, a first for any musical. “The period between Christmas and New Year’s always brings boffo busi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]When the port city of Mukalla was finally liberated from Al-Qaeda, “[these] five Yemeni hip-hop dancers thought their problems had ended. … But last month Yemeni security forces brie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]“Since April 2017, an estimated one million of Xinjiang’s 11 million Uyghur population” " including most of its Uyghur artists and writers " “have disappeared into wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Salvatore Settis, former Director of the Getty Research Institute and author of If Venice Dies, says maybe, if authorities start following policies they’ve shown no real interest in. (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Of the city’s 30 million visitors each year, fewer than a third stay overnight (and pay hotel tax). Now the other 20 million, mostly cruise-ship passengers, will also contribute to cov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]For over a year now, I've been stewing on and adapting the independent work of E.F. Schumacher and Ken Wilber (citations below), both of whom explore and explain what a "whole" view of ourse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06AM[SHARE]Identity is the hottest topic in American theater these days, just as immigration is the hottest topic in American politics. But Heather Raffo's Noura, a drama about a family of Iraqi Cathol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Philosopher Tim Sommers makes the case that, “in general, it's very hard to not involve yourself in some kind of ‘performative contradiction’ " where what you do contradict…
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